I think you’ll see pockets of good choices and efforts being made, perhaps down to cities, that may or may not mitigate some of the damage, or allow for a more resilient response to ongoing events.
Catastrophic level collapses that take decades will be survivable, but not at the quality of life that most are accustomed to, leading to those on the bottom dying and suffering in greater numbers. Life expectancy will continue to drop. The world will be changed, it’s just a matter of how much civil unrest this engenders as resources become scarce and global markets less reliable or available.
I’m not sure how much ecofascism we’ll actually see, though, as the people who lean/are fascist are the ones least likely to believe climate change exists, and given how conspiracy style thinking has flourished with Covid, I really can’t be sure that they’ll ever “snap out of it” and start clamoring for the change that’ll actually do anything. I think it’s more likely to see increasingly angry people who demand more for their homes and less for others, which I guess could be ecofascism? But without actually believing climate is changing; it just happens to be dumping a ton more rain for whatever reason.
They already do: there are pretty much always protestors at the Capitol. Congresspersons often live in gated communities that can kick people out or not allow entry. How many of those protests are you aware of, compared to those protests that disrupted your daily life?
“…and I gotta warn you, these fancy European hotels, they got the strangest names, so you better be careful about ordering your ticket. You don’t wanna miss it!”
“Yeah sure.”
“So the first part’s in January, at the Top Of The World, and the second’s next week, in Summer.”
“…pardon?”
“I said, it’s in January, at The Top Of The World, and-“
“Where in the world is January right next to summer?”
“Oh they’re both 3rd floor.”
“What? How’d I get on the 3rd floor?”
“Well you gotta order your ticket, first.”
“…in January?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, so I call the ticket office on January 1st and-“
“No no no, you’ll miss it! You gotta so it earlier than that or you’ll be late! You’ll wind up in Summer, next thing you know.”
“I don’t know what I know and what I don’t!”
“It’s so simple: in January, The Top Of The World.”
“Am I doing drugs?”
“Why would you be doing drugs?”
“How else am I gettin to the top of the world?”
“Why, with the stairs of course.”
“…okay I think I got my wires all crisscrossed and such.”
“Just remember: Summer’s later, January comes first.”
“First time you’ve made sense today! So, I get my ticket…sometime, and I go and see the bands in…at…January?”
“At January, yes.”
“In summer?”
“No, that’s next week. Now that one’s at the top of The World.”
“…they got booze at the top of the world?”
“Try telling me they don’t”
“Good, I’m gonna need it. So when I’m in At January, I go-“
“No, January.”
“That’s what I said.”
“No that’s totally different. It’s happening in January.”
“…at the top of the world?”
“Yes.”
“And just where do you figure that is?”
“3rd floor.”
“Why am I on third again?”
I feel you about getting antsy when you’re not productive, or feeling a project won’t get worked on without active effort on your part, but one thing that helps me slow down is two pieces of knowledge.
One, that a ton of the processing your brain does is unconscious. You ever go for a walk to “clear your head” and suddenly a solution popped into your brain? Your mind never stopped working on the issue, it just got put outside your conscious awareness.
Two, that operating at lower efficiency for longer is exactly what tanks you and brings you down to zero efficiency (and also kills your ability to process unconsciously). You ever heard “fast is slow and slow is fast”?
Don’t think of it as being unproductive: do you think a car refueling is being unproductive? Or is that and an oil change part of routine maintenance that keeps you from needing to push it down the road to a station every so often?
At a certain point you just have to keep doing what you’re doing and hope people join you. :/
There are so many scary topics today that “hey this is really important to get right” just doesn’t really hit bottom unless someone already cares about a particular issue, and we all know how incentivized those big platforms are to providing actual critiques of their products.
I’ve settled on just telling people what I use and why, and sometimes they look thoughtful, and I do what I can with my own limited knowledge and time. More a minimization of harm than going for broke.
If you watch someone piss in a milk carton and then offer you a bowl of cereal the next morning, and you accept, it’s because you’re either into it or really, really out of it.
I appreciate the warning, but I’m hoping that if this user isn’t convinced that others will see them have a chance to discuss and defend their views and come to their own conclusions.
Does it include only aesthetic changes, like tattoos and piercings, or is it stricter?
Any surgical change whatsoever? Are cleft lip surgeries a denial of how you were born?
If your argument is then “no, of course not, even if there is predominantly an aesthetic change, modern health care is broadly in favor of this as a necessary correction”, then how do you account for this being the same stance applied to gender affirming care?
Is it because you don’t wish to see trans people as the gender they present? Why is that? Do you have an argument that is not based in a religion or culture that does not apply to all?
It’s easier to guess if you imagine what an inebriated badger with heavy mange is capable of growling in its slurred but wild speech.